Identifier: wrightsbookofpou00wrig (find matches)
Title: Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wright, Lewis, 1838-1905 Lewer, Sidney Herbert, 1862-
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: London, New York, Cassell
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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olobreeders was, that it was originally bred fromthe full-tailed Silver Mooney, many chickens ofthe latter coming almost black. The birds ofthat day were shorter in the leg than now,and of the same shorter formation generallyas the older Mooneys, and with ear-lobes muchsmaller and coarser than now^ This old breedwas undoubtedly crossed with the Spanish, inorder to improve the size and quality of thecar-lobes ; and the size of the fowl and of itsegg were both improved at the same time, whileit likewise became more suitable in dispositionfor small runs. Unfortunatcl)-, the cross alsointroduced a considerable tendency to white inface, and some coarseness about the head, whichhave required a great deal of breeding out; theform of the bird also became somewhat taller,though anything like the stilty carriage of theSi)anish is most objectionable, and the usualHamburgh carriage should be sought as faras possible. The Black Hamburgh of the present dayis a most striking bird, the combination of
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BLACK HAMBURGHS. 445 bright carmine head and face and comb, smoothwhite kid ear-lobe, and kistrous green plumage,making a most beautiful whole. The ear-lobeis considerably larger now than even twentyyears ago, that of the cock being about the sizeof a florin ; it should be round in shape andsmooth all over, perfectly free from folds orlines or creases. Such a lobe is, of course, veryapt to be accompanied by more or less white inface, especially under the eye, a fault muchmore common in Blacks than in any othervarieties of Hamburgh. Very few old birds areindeed free from it, but in young ones it is aserious fault. A gipsy tint sometimes seen isalso disliked, a cherry red being the desiredcolour. In combs also there has been a percep-tible change in fashion, in the direction of alonger spike or leader at the back, especiallyin the cock. Both sexes are of rather largersize than other Hamburghs, except perhapssome of the larger Silver Moone3-s, and the cockis of somewhat more commanding c

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